To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

I beg to be excused on the style of these few lines. Being a Frenchman I could not resist expressing my extreme patriotic dissapointment in seeing the abominable play chosen to represent our literature so fruitful in very good works, before one of the greatest universities of the world.

Nothing is more astonishing than the Dramatic Club's choice, nothing more painfully astonishing. Heaven knows why Sacha Guitry's "Beranger" has been chosen. Why!!! There is nothing, in that miserable piece of literature, absolutely nothing but a perfectly--uninteresting succession of hastily drawn sketches.

"Beranger" you are in France a superb example of mediocrity, and you are far from being worthy of crossing the ocean to America. You are worse than bad! You are nothing! You have no unity, no action, no picturesqueness, no personality. A gallery of badly painted tableaux and nothing more!

Talleyrand, one of the heroes of the play, is unreal and devoid of spirit. He is a badly dressed mannequin. Talleyrand is too complicated a character to be presented on the stage and Sacha Guitry makes him everything but what he was. The other characters are not any better.

"Beranger" shall be played here. The actors will be applauded for they will be very good, but, GRAND DIEU, Sacha, how do you get away with it? HENRI DE CASTELLANE

April, 9, 1922.